ivorygull

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It’s easy to spot a walrus, but some of the other Arctic species are harder to find, though no less important. The tiny white bird attempting to upstage this walrus and well camouflaged against the white ice, is an ivory gull. The two animals are in stark contrast but they are linked by their dependence on a specific habitat. Both the walrus and ivory gull are ‘ice associated’ meaning they rely to a significant degree on sea ice for their survival. Walrus use sea ice as a platform to feed from, diving into the water to eat clams. Ivory gulls hunt and forage for food across the Arctic Ocean sea ice -often feeding on seal carcass left on the ice by passing polar bears. With the sharp downward trend in summer sea ice cover, it’s likely that these ice associated animals will be impacted by the loss of summer ice. This picture was taken on sea ice north of Svalbard.
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Photo by @nickcobbing
It’s easy to spot a walrus, but some of the other Arctic species are harder to find, though no less important. The tiny white bird attempting to upstage this walrus and well camouflaged against the white ice, is an ivory gull. The two animals are in stark contrast but they are linked by their dependence on a specific habitat. Both the walrus and ivory gull are ‘ice associated’ meaning they rely to a significant degree on sea ice for their survival. Walrus use sea ice as a platform to feed from, diving into the water to eat clams. Ivory gulls hunt and forage for food across the Arctic Ocean sea ice -often feeding on seal carcass left on the ice by passing polar bears. With the sharp downward trend in summer sea ice cover, it’s likely that these ice associated animals will be impacted by the loss of summer ice. This picture was taken on sea ice north of Svalbard.
#ivorygull#seaice#walrus#arctic#wild#nature#ecosystem#contrast - #regrann

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It’s easy to spot a walrus, but some of the other Arctic species are harder to find, though no less important. The tiny white bird attempting to upstage this walrus and well camouflaged against the white ice, is an ivory gull. The two animals are in stark contrast but they are linked by their dependence on a specific habitat. Both the walrus and ivory gull are ‘ice associated’ meaning they rely to a significant degree on sea ice for their survival. Walrus use sea ice as a platform to feed from, diving into the water to eat clams. Ivory gulls hunt and forage for food across the Arctic Ocean sea ice -often feeding on seal carcass left on the ice by passing polar bears. With the sharp downward trend in summer sea ice cover, it’s likely that these ice associated animals will be impacted by the loss of summer ice. This picture was taken on sea ice north of Svalbard.
#ivorygull#seaice#walrus#arctic#wild#nature#ecosystem#contrast

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Photo by @nickcobbing
It’s easy to spot a walrus, but some of the other Arctic species are harder to find, though no less important. The tiny white bird attempting to upstage this walrus and well camouflaged against the white ice, is an ivory gull. The two animals are in stark contrast but they are linked by their dependence on a specific habitat. Both the walrus and ivory gull are ‘ice associated’ meaning they rely to a significant degree on sea ice for their survival. Walrus use sea ice as a platform to feed from, diving into the water to eat clams. Ivory gulls hunt and forage for food across the Arctic Ocean sea ice -often feeding on seal carcass left on the ice by passing polar bears. With the sharp downward trend in summer sea ice cover, it’s likely that these ice associated animals will be impacted by the loss of summer ice. This picture was taken on sea ice north of Svalbard.
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It’s easy to spot a walrus, but some of the other Arctic species are harder to find, though no less important. The tiny white bird attempting to upstage this walrus and well camouflaged against the white ice, is an ivory gull. The two animals are in stark contrast but they are linked by their dependence on a specific habitat. Both the walrus and ivory gull are ‘ice associated’ meaning they rely to a significant degree on sea ice for their survival. Walrus use sea ice as a platform to feed from, diving into the water to eat clams. Ivory gulls hunt and forage for food across the Arctic Ocean sea ice -often feeding on seal carcass left on the ice by passing polar bears. With the sharp downward trend in summer sea ice cover, it’s likely that these ice associated animals will be impacted by the loss of summer ice. This picture was taken on sea ice north of Svalbard.
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It’s easy to spot a walrus, but some of the other Arctic species are harder to find, though no less important. The tiny white bird attempting to upstage this walrus and well camouflaged against the white ice, is an ivory gull. The two animals are in stark contrast but they are linked by their dependence on a specific habitat. Both the walrus and ivory gull are ‘ice associated’ meaning they rely to a significant degree on sea ice for their survival. Walrus use sea ice as a platform to feed from, diving into the water to eat clams. Ivory gulls hunt and forage for food across the Arctic Ocean sea ice -often feeding on seal carcass left on the ice by passing polar bears. With the sharp downward trend in summer sea ice cover, it’s likely that these ice associated animals will be impacted by the loss of summer ice. This picture was taken on sea ice north of Svalbard.
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Photo by @nickcobbing
It’s easy to spot a walrus, but some of the other Arctic species are harder to find, though no less important. The tiny white bird attempting to upstage this walrus and well camouflaged against the white ice, is an ivory gull. The two animals are in stark contrast but they are linked by their dependence on a specific habitat. Both the walrus and ivory gull are ‘ice associated’ meaning they rely to a significant degree on sea ice for their survival. Walrus use sea ice as a platform to feed from, diving into the water to eat clams. Ivory gulls hunt and forage for food across the Arctic Ocean sea ice -often feeding on seal carcass left on the ice by passing polar bears. With the sharp downward trend in summer sea ice cover, it’s likely that these ice associated animals will be impacted by the loss of summer ice. This picture was taken on sea ice north of Svalbard, Norway 🇳🇴 #ivorygull#seaice#walrus#arctic#wild#nature#ecosystem#contrast#svalbard#norway#wildlifewednesday

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#Repost@natgeo
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Photo by @nickcobbing
It’s easy to spot a walrus, but some of the other Arctic species are harder to find, though no less important. The tiny white bird attempting to upstage this walrus and well camouflaged against the white ice, is an ivory gull. The two animals are in stark contrast but they are linked by their dependence on a specific habitat. Both the walrus and ivory gull are ‘ice associated’ meaning they rely to a significant degree on sea ice for their survival. Walrus use sea ice as a platform to feed from, diving into the water to eat clams. Ivory gulls hunt and forage for food across the Arctic Ocean sea ice -often feeding on seal carcass left on the ice by passing polar bears. With the sharp downward trend in summer sea ice cover, it’s likely that these ice associated animals will be impacted by the loss of summer ice. This picture was taken on sea ice north of Svalbard.
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#Walrus#Seagul#seaice#climateaction is so necessary right now biggest threat to humanity right now is #climatechange and those people who deny #climatechange and go and vote for politicians who deny climate change THIS IS THE ONLY HOME WE HAVE PLANET EARTH and we share it with this wonderful creatures who are in verge of extinction because of us we have the responsibility to do our best in #climateaction Regrann from @natgeo - Photo by @nickcobbing
It’s easy to spot a walrus, but some of the other Arctic species are harder to find, though no less important. The tiny white bird attempting to upstage this walrus and well camouflaged against the white ice, is an ivory gull. The two animals are in stark contrast but they are linked by their dependence on a specific habitat. Both the walrus and ivory gull are ‘ice associated’ meaning they rely to a significant degree on sea ice for their survival. Walrus use sea ice as a platform to feed from, diving into the water to eat clams. Ivory gulls hunt and forage for food across the Arctic Ocean sea ice -often feeding on seal carcass left on the ice by passing polar bears. With the sharp downward trend in summer sea ice cover, it’s likely that these ice associated animals will be impacted by the loss of summer ice. This picture was taken on sea ice north of Svalbard.
#ivorygull #seaice #walrus#arctic#wild#nature#ecosystem#contrast

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#Repost@natgeo with @get_repost
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Photo by @nickcobbing
It’s easy to spot a walrus, but some of the other Arctic species are harder to find, though no less important. The tiny white bird attempting to upstage this walrus and well camouflaged against the white ice, is an ivory gull. The two animals are in stark contrast but they are linked by their dependence on a specific habitat. Both the walrus and ivory gull are ‘ice associated’ meaning they rely to a significant degree on sea ice for their survival. Walrus use sea ice as a platform to feed from, diving into the water to eat clams. Ivory gulls hunt and forage for food across the Arctic Ocean sea ice -often feeding on seal carcass left on the ice by passing polar bears. With the sharp downward trend in summer sea ice cover, it’s likely that these ice associated animals will be impacted by the loss of summer ice. This picture was taken on sea ice north of Svalbard.
#ivorygull#seaice#walrus#arctic#wild#nature#ecosystem#contrast

Photo by @nickcobbing
It’s easy to spot a walrus, but some of the other Arctic species are harder to find, though no less important. The tiny white bird attempting to upstage this walrus and well camouflaged against the white ice, is an ivory gull. The two animals are in stark contrast but they are linked by their dependence on a specific habitat. Both the walrus and ivory gull are ‘ice associated’ meaning they rely to a significant degree on sea ice for their survival. Walrus use sea ice as a platform to feed from, diving into the water to eat clams. Ivory gulls hunt and forage for food across the Arctic Ocean sea ice -often feeding on seal carcass left on the ice by passing polar bears. With the sharp downward trend in summer sea ice cover, it’s likely that these ice associated animals will be impacted by the loss of summer ice. This picture was taken on sea ice north of Svalbard.
#ivorygull#seaice#walrus#arctic#wild#nature#ecosystem#contrast

Arctic Ivory Gull. ❄ Throwback to when my brother let me know this guy was in town, and I photographed him at the pier.

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An adult Ivory Gull at Cape Ann, Massachusetts (1/18/2009). Found by Jeremiah Trimble.
My friends Jim Brighton and Mikey Lutmerding and I heard about it at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday evening and were on the road by 8:45. Around dawn eleven hours later we were watching this most rare and beautiful of gulls. For anyone not familiar with the species, this is a rare bird of the high arctic, the famous scavenger of Polar Bear kills. This was really a dream sighting, and the bird was somehow even more spectacular than I'd expected.
A bunch more photos: http://billhubick.com/photos/birds/ivory_gull.php.
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With an Arctic blast hitting the northern UK and birders dreaming of the treasures that it may deliver, here's one such holy grail from a similar weather system four years ago, in mid-December 2013. I was still high as a kite after finding a certain auk just a few minutes from my front door shortly before this bird appeared in the outer Humber - an Arctic Yorkshire double that I don't expect to repeat anytime soon.
#ivorygull#brunnichs#birding#Yorkshire#winter#northerlies